Update Process
- 1.The JRA Race Card will be available on the day before the races (usually around noon, JPN time).
- 2.The JRA official race results will be available after the placing order of all horses in each race becomes official (normally 20 minutes after each race).
Symbols and Abbreviations
- JRA:
- Japan Racing Association
- NAR:
- National Association of Racing (Racing by Local Governments)
- DES:
- designates a JRA race in which NAR registered horses can enter, or a race in which an NAR licensed jockey can ride.
- SD:
- designates a race in which a horse, which has won one or more JRA approved races in Local Government Racing and also a race in which NAR licensed jockeys can ride.
- DSN:
- designates a race in which NAR licensed jockeys can ride.
- MIX:
- designates a race in which foreign-bred horses, which have not raced outside of Japan, can enter with domestic-bred horses.
- INT:
- designates a race which is open to all foreign-bred horses and all domestic-bred horses.
Official Going
- Turf course:
- Firm, Good to Firm, Good, Yielding, Soft
- Dirt course:
- Standard, Good, Muddy, Sloppy
* Note: “Good to Firm” going on turf added from January 2021.
Gender and Sex
C = Colt (2-4 Y/O), H = Horse (5 Y/O & UP), G = Gelding, F = Filly (2-4 Y/O), M = Mare (5 Y/O & UP)
Finish or Margin
- D:
- Dead Heat
- NS:
- Nose
- HD:
- Head
- NK:
- Neck
- DS:
- Distance
- DQ&P:
- Disqualified and Placed, or Demoted
- RM:
- Remount
- S:
- Scratched
- ER:
- Excluded from running (by stewards)
- FF:
- Fail to finish
- DQ:
- Disqualified